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On Sunday, Sage Karam moved back into Indianapolis. Last year, Karam lived in the hub of Indy-car racing only for the racing season. He'd undoubtedly like it to be more permanent this time. On Tuesday, the former Nazareth High wrestler and 2013 Firestone Indy Lights champion may have taken the first step in that direction. Chip Ganassi Racing Teams announced that Karam, who was hired last year as a development driver and has raced in a number of prestigious sports car events for CGRT, will drive for the team next month in the Verizon IndyCar Series season opener in St. Petersburg, Fla. In fact, Tuesday was a big day all around for Karam, who finished ninth in the 2014...

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On Sunday, Sage Karam moved back into Indianapolis.
Last year, Karam lived in the hub of Indy-car racing only for the racing season. He'd undoubtedly like it to be more permanent this time.
On Tuesday, the former Nazareth High wrestler and 2013...

DAYTONA — Chip Ganassi Racing Teams was celebrating at the Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona for the sixth time on Sunday afternoon, but it wasn't the team that included Nazareth native Sage Karam and his friends.Karam, the 2013 Firestone Indy Lights champion who...

Nazareth's Sage Karam made a daring move on a restart Saturday and put the Chip Ganassi Racing Teams Ford EcoBoost-Target Riley DP No. 01 Prototype into an early lead during his first stint in the Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona.
On his restart where he took...

Sage Karam rated his year of 2014 as "an 8 or a 9" on a scale of 1-10.
Finishing ninth in his rookie season at the Indianapolis 500, and his Nazareth Area High School graduation two weeks later, went a long way in pushing the scale upward.
...

Andretti Autosport has hired Rob Edwards, who spent the past five-plus years as team general manager with Schmidt Peterson Motorsports, as its director of race operations and engineering.
Edwards replaces longtime team director Kyle Moyer, who moved in...

IndyCar again will have a strong presence at the 18th SKUSA SuperNationals this weekend in Las Vegas.
Reigning Verizon IndyCar Series champion Will Power and race winner Marco Andretti headline the lineup of drivers in nine divisions.
The karting...

After months of speculation, Pocono Raceway announced on Thursday morning that IndyCar racing will return to Long Pond in 2015 for a third consecutive year.
However, unlike the past two summers when the race was held around Fourth of July...

Brandon Igdalsky knew for some time that the IndyCar series would be making a return to Pocono in 2015.And since the Pocono Raceway president and CEO has been besieged by questions about next year's schedule ever since this year's Pocono IndyCar 500 was...

Helio Castroneves is protcted from a scorching sun while his team works on his car during Tuesday's IndyCar test session at Pocono Raceway. You just assume that a guy named Will Power must be a never-give-up type. And that name ...

DETROIT -- Will Power had just enough power Saturday to hold off a charging Graham Rahal in the Verizon IndyCar Series Duel in Detroit street race, the first of two such races this weekend at Belle Isle Park.Power won for the 23rd time in his career and...

The closest thing to a North-of-the-Mason-Dixon-line event on NASCAR's Grand National Series in 1973 was a 500-miler at the Michigan International Speedway, which began staging races for stock car racing's Daytona, Fla., based series in 1969.
Bill France...

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FONTANA, Calif. — Will Power finally overcame his IndyCar championship demons.
The 33-year-old driver of Toowoomba, Australia, had finished second in the point standings three times in the past four years but delivered a special...

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SONOMA, Calif. —Scott Dixon had the right fuel strategy, again.
IndyCar's master of saving fuel delivered his first win of the season Sunday at Sonoma Raceway as the series prepares for a championship fight next weekend at Auto Club...

LEXINGTON, Ohio — Sebastien Bourdais earned his second Verizon P1 Award of the season after posting the quickest lap of the Firestone Fast Six shootout on his final lap, which secured the pole position for Sunday's Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio.
It was...

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LEXINGTON, Ohio — Mr. Mid-Ohio did it again.
This time, in dramatic fashion, Scott Dixon won the IndyCar Series race from the last starting position. He started 22nd because he created a caution flag in qualifying, leading officials...

Some guy with a Twitter name of @JeffJustJeff posted the following during Saturday’s Mobil 1 12 Hours of Sebring sports car endurance race: “@SageKaram has thoroughly impressed me. Get that kid a full time ride.” Another guy named @DonMedia posted: ...

Here's a release detailing another facet of IndyCar racing's return to Pocono next weekend: Vintage Indy Cars Will Support Pocono IndyCar 400 July 5-7 LONG POND, Pa., June 30 — An exhibition of vintage Indy cars will be part of the Pocono IndyCar 400 Fueled by

IndyCar just released its television schedule for next year and the race at Pocono Raceway on July 6 is set to be broadcast on the NBC Sports Network. IndyCar's return to Pocono this past July was televised by ABC, but perhaps the change in format to a 500-mil

The tragic death of NASCAR veteran Jason Leffler on Wednesday night has shaken up the racing world. Leffler, 37, was killed in a crash while racing in the Night of Wings event, a 25-lap race for sprint cars equipped with stabilizing wings, at Bridgeport Speedw